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A major watchdog says data centers are wreaking havoc on North America's power grid
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Mark Zuckerberg Just Told 8,000 Employees Their Layoffs Are a Line Item in His $145 Billion AI Bill
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Michigan residents voted down a $16 billion Stargate AI data center, then construction began anyway
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Parent company of Truth Social reports $400M loss
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Senator at center of Utah AI data center debate gets physical, slaps phone out of reporterâs hand â reporter covering cases of harassment against his business
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Lithium deposit valued at over $1.5 trillion discovered in the U.S.
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Kevin OâLearyâs proposed 9GW "hyperscale" AI data center in Utah will consume double the state's entire electricity usage and generate the waste heat of 23 atom bombs a day.
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Laid-off Oracle workers tried to negotiate better severance. Oracle said no.
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Chinese grey market sells Claude API access at 90% off by using stolen credentials, model substitution, and harvesting users' prompts and outputs for resale as AI training data â 'transfer stations' operate through proxy networks that harvest user data
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North Korean fake remote worker scam lands two Americans 18-month prison sentences for hosting laptops â U.S firms unknowingly shipped laptops to âemployeesâ who secretly worked from overseas via remote desktop, generating $1.2 million for Pyongyang
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FCC Extends Update Deadline for Foreign-Made Routers, Drones Until 2029
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Thousands of Vibe-Coded Apps Expose Corporate and Personal Data on the Open Web
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Mozilla, Mullvad, Proton, sign letter opposing UK age verification
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Anthropic CEO says 80-fold growth in first quarter explains 'difficulties with compute'
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ICE Plans to Develop Own Smart Glasses to âSupplementâ Its Facial Recognition App | A DHS official and another person who attended a recent conference described the plans to 404 Media.
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Scientists are working on a hantavirus vaccine
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Fears grow that age verification coming to VPNs as a British research firm labels them a 'loophole' â one app developer saw downloads surge by 1,800% in just the first month after the UK's Online Safety Act took effect
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Schools reach out to Canvas hackers as breach hits US classrooms, source says
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Nasa brought crashing down to earth as budget threat follows lunar success
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Cloudflare says AI made 1,100 jobs obsolete, even as revenue hit a record high
Techmeme
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How SpaceMob, an online community of ~50,000, has fueled a meme-stock-like rally in satellite networking company AST, which is up ~6,000% over a 22-month period (Bloomberg)
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LayerZero apologizes for Kelp DAO exploit response, says single-verifier setup was deficient; Dune: in April, ~47% of LayerZero OApps had the same default setup (Zack Abrams/The Block)
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Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI firms met with Hindu, Sikh, and Greek Orthodox leaders to draft principles on how to infuse models with ethics and morality (Krysta Fauria/Associated Press)
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GM agrees to pay $12.75M to resolve a California investigation into claims that it illegally sold the location and driving data of OnStar subscribers to brokers (David Shepardson/Reuters)
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Sources: ByteDance plans to increase its 2026 capex to more than $30B, up at least 25% from a preliminary plan, amid the AI boom and rising memory chip costs (South China Morning Post)
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OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google's enterprise push with PE firms poses a new competitive threat to India's IT industry, as services become increasingly automatable (Moneycontrol)
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Sales of PC motherboards are expected to fall 25%+ YoY in 2026, as PC users delay their upgrades amid AI-driven price surges for memory, storage, and processors (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware)
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A profile of Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao, who tends to take a conservative approach to revenue projections and has chosen to raise less money than is available (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
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Palo Alto Networks says in its testing, three weeks of frontier AI-assisted analysis matched a full year of manual penetration testing, with broader coverage (Sam Rubin/Palo Alto Networks Blog)
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Anthropic details how it improved Claude's safety training after finding agentic misalignment in older models, such as Opus 4 blackmailing engineers (Anthropic)
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OpenAI president Greg Brockman's journal has emerged as a star witness in the Musk v. Altman trial; Brockman says he stopped writing about OpenAI in it in 2023 (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal)
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Source: Mistral AI and TML's founding member Devendra Chaplot, who was considered a marquee hire when he joined xAI in March, exited xAI after roughly a month (The Information)
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NHTSA says the 2026 Tesla Model Y is the first car model to pass the agency's new ADAS tests; Tesla conducted the tests and submitted the results to the NHTSA (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
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Beijing-based humanoid robotics company Robotera raised over $200M led by SF Group, after raising ~$146M in March at a ~$1.47B valuation (Du Zhihang/Caixin Global)
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Honeywell's Quantinuum files for a US IPO, reporting a $136.6M net loss on revenue of $5.2M for the three months ended March 31; sources: it could raise $1.5B+ (Carmen Reinicke/Bloomberg)